Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.

Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity

It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical project alongside their engagem

We're all going to die. Yet in our medically advanced, technological age, many of us see death as a distant reality--something that happens only at the end of a

revised and expanded edition